Jan 31 2008

Clean up Google Mail Folder Structure on your iPhone

Published by Jonathan Wise at 11:55 am under Hacks

If you use GMail, or Google Apps for Your Domain on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed an odd folder structure, with most of your folders being found under [Gmail]. This looks ugly, and it turns out, is easy to fix:

  • In your “Advanced” Mail account settings, set the IMAP Path Prefix to “[Gmail]/”
  • (The trailing / is added automatically)

Now your folders will look flatter and much prettier. This works in Mail.app on your desktop Mac too! And don’t worry — it’ll still be able to find the Inbox on its own.

6 Responses to “Clean up Google Mail Folder Structure on your iPhone”

  1. # Phillip Porchon 29 Mar 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Thanks, that was just what I was looking for.

  2. # Mark Johnsonon 01 Jun 2008 at 9:27 pm

    This would be good, but I use labels for all my email structure and this doesn’t show those once enabled. Any suggestions for that?

  3. # Jonathan Wiseon 06 Jun 2008 at 4:32 pm

    Alas, I hit the same issue with the ‘Starred’ folder. However, I decided not to use the “folders as labels” feature of GMail on my iPhone, since it kept “disappearing” my mail. If you use those features, however, you’ll have to put up with GMail’s silly folder structure.

  4. # MSKon 19 Jul 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Check out the link

    http://www.matthewskennedy.co.uk/Site/Part_1.html

    cleanest way to implement Gmail on the iphone

  5. # Jonathan Wiseon 22 Jul 2008 at 1:27 pm

    Thanks for the extra tips! I’m pretty happy with my set-up, but I might try your steps some time…

  6. # MSKon 25 Jul 2008 at 12:53 pm

    http://web.me.com/m.kennedy/IPhone_mail_/Part_1.html sorry this link

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